[hyperpallium]

You may be right about the selling power of the "AI" brand, but it seems that AI technology routinely becomes thought of as just technology.

Boole called his algebra "The Laws of Thought"; OOP; lisp was an AI technology (much of which has made its way into other languages); formal languages; etc.

The traditional goalpost rule is that once computers can do it, it's no longer "intelligent" (e.g, chess). A change today is "AI" success as a marketing term.

[cLeEOGPw]

Great point. What people today would think of as "intelligent machines", children of future will think of same things as mere "technological tools".

Once this is widely established, things like "laws of robotics", "moral dilemma of autopilot" and "AI and ethics" will be just bizarre ideas of the past. Asimov's laws are already viewed as one of "misguided ideas of the past" by many, although there still are some rusty minds out there believing in things like that.